Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v4 05/19] Acceptance tests: use "arch:" tag to filter target specific tests

[Cornelia Huck]

On Tue, 12 Mar 2019 08:11:36 -0400
Cleber Rosa <address@hidden> wrote:

> Currently, some tests contains target architecture information, in the
> form of a "x86_64" tag.  But that tag is not respected in the default
> execution, that is, "make check-acceptance" doesn't do anything with
> it.
> 
> That said, even the target architecture handling currently present in
> the "avocado_qemu.Test" class is pretty limited.  For instance, by
> default, it chooses a target based on the host architecture.
> 
> Because the original implementation of the tags feature in Avocado did
> not include any time of namespace or "key:val" mechanism, no tag has
> relation to another tag.  The new implementation of the tags feature
> from version 67.0 onwards, allows "key:val" tags, and because of that,
> a test can be classified with a tag in a given key.  For instance, the
> new proposed version of the "boot_linux_console.py" test, which
> downloads and attempts to run a x86_64 kernel, is now tagged as:
> 
>   :avocado: tags=arch:x86_64
> 
> This means that it can be filtered (out) when no x86_64 target is
> available.  At the same time, tests that don't have a "arch:" tag,
> will not be filtered out.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Cleber Rosa <address@hidden>
> ---
>  tests/Makefile.include                 | 3 +++
>  tests/acceptance/boot_linux_console.py | 2 +-
>  tests/acceptance/linux_initrd.py       | 2 +-
>  tests/acceptance/virtio_version.py     | 2 +-
>  4 files changed, 6 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
> 

Reviewed-by: Cornelia Huck <address@hidden>